Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.